Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Carr. Minister, have you been briefed on, and what can you tell the Senate about, the foreign affairs implications of the biggest operational addition to the Australia-US alliance since the 1980s, the stationing of 2½ thousand US Marines at Robertson Barracks in Darwin on permanent rotation for joint training and military exercises, a deployment which I understand will commence within a matter of weeks?